Hawkwind: A Visual Biography

Hawkwind has been defining what it means to be a cult band for over fifty years, combining grinding hard rock grooves, pioneering electronics, and liquid lighting. Their album Space Ritual in 1973 brought them to the public consciousness, and they have since released more than thirty studio albums and companion pieces. Hawkwind: A Visual Biography focuses on the band's graphics, presenting record covers, promo items, advertisements, ticket stubs, and photos of Brock and crew in their live space. Martin Popoff has provided a detailed timeline of the band's career, helping fans to explore the original scriptures and discover the charming and astounding sounds that gave rise to Hawkwind.

Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 08 October 2021
Publisher: Wymer Publishing

For over fifty years, Dave Brock and his assembled astronauts of mind and space have been defining what it means to be the ultimate cult band through a confluence of grinding hard rock grooves, pioneering electronics, and liquid lighting. With the Space Ritual live album of 1973, Hawkwind burst into the public consciousness and have never looked back, continually discovering new ways to equate the subatomic with the infinite, the endless void of space with totality, using the exotic language of their ever-evolving yet complex musical language, one that defies genre classification but perhaps creates a genre all its own, namely space rock. Accompanying their more than thirty studio albums and myriad companion pieces along the way are the graphics thereof, visuals that further attempt to explain themes that are hard to articulate. Hawkwind: A Visual Biography concentrates the third eye on this part of the package, presenting pretty pictures of record covers, promo items, advertisements, ticket stubs, paper goods pertaining to side-projects, and numerous photos, most previously unpublished, of Brock and crew resplendent in their live space, in hopes that the Hawk manifesto just might become a little more knowable. Aiding in that cause, Martin Popoff has provided a detailed timeline of the band's complicated and dramatic career goings-on, helping to guide one's way through each year and era, each hiring and firing and misfiring, each cluster of notions, audio magic potions, each sailing upon inter-stellar topographic oceans. The ultimate aim is to send older fans as well as the next generation of blaster-offer back to the original scriptures, the studio albums serving as space-flung signposts, in search of the charming and astounding sounds that gave rise to Hawkwind: A Visual Biography.

Weight: 1516g
Dimension: 220 x 304 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781912782864